Design Trust seeks two Project Fellows (Policy/Sustainability and Metrics/Evaluation) for Five Borough Farm, a pioneering project to create New York’s first citywide plan for urban agriculture. Complete fellowship descriptions can be found here. The deadline to apply is Wednesday, February … Continue reading →

Brooklyn Bridge Park will open in phases beginning this winter.Last week we were excited to visit the future Brooklyn Bridge Park, an 85-acre site designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates for the Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corporation. The park will … Continue reading →

Recently I met up with designer Antonina Simeti for coffee and a conversation about Breakout!*, a festival of co-working sessions in public spaces. Not only is their project very timely, but it challenges our definitions of both “work” and “public … Continue reading →

Before the High Line was the High Line – back when it was merely a narrow, elevated strip of rusty railway – the Design Trust partnered with the then-nascent Friends of the High Line to publish Reclaiming the High Line, … Continue reading →

This recent article, “A Place is Better than a Plan,” published in the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal articulates the power of small-scale urban design interventions. While there is certainly value in big-picture planning, it’s important to recognize how slight tweaks … Continue reading →

This week’s New York Magazine approval matrix ranks Intersections: Grand Concourse Beyond 100 – an international ideas competition co-sponsored by the Design Trust for Public Space and The Bronx Museum of the Arts – in the highbrow/brilliant quadrant. Nice. The … Continue reading →

The Design Trust Annual Benefit, hosted November 5 at Ogilvy & Mather, was a smashing success! The Annual Benefit is our largest fundraising event and a critical source of support for our operations and programming. The 2009 Annual Benefit would … Continue reading →